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The Mouse as Vizier

February 12, 2018

The Egyptians were quite fond of fables and they veiled in them much of their knowledge and philosophy. In the story about a mouse who became a vizier, correcting injustice with another injustice angered the king so much that he declared that all mice would live underground forevermore. In the kingdom of the animals there…

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Storytelling in Ancient Egypt

September 28, 2017

The use of a frame story, which serves as a framework within which a number of other stories are told, is a very popular technique in storytelling. The collection of One Thousand and One Nights is a classic famous example, but the technique has a longer history with many of these stories coming from India,…

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